Guess Who????

We have such creative people in our group.  This young lady dressed up for Halloween...can you guess who?  Send me an email or let me know at the meeting who you think this is and you just might win a prize!

Our meeting is on for tomorrow, don't forget your supplies for the magnolia.

As you know, I lost my much loved sister, Barbara, a few weeks ago.  I was very fortunate to have spent two weeks at her home in the mountains of Pennsylvania and then she spent three weeks with us here in Pensacola.  We always have the best times together.  After years of talking every day, four and five times in a day, I miss her terribly.  They say time heals and it will get easier but I'm not so sure of that.  I want to thank Sue for listening to me during my stay in New York, Jane for the sweet note she sent, Janice L. and Margaret for their cards and Jeanette for always remembering to send out cards for the club.  And to Lucy for sharing.

See y'all tomorrow.

November Meeting and Paint In

You will need to bring the following supplies to the meeting for the magnolia:

12-  12 inch white round balloons per flower

floral stem wrapping tape

two magnolia like leaves per flower- buy any artificial large green leaf and cut to magnolia shape if  you are unable to find the magnolia leaf

wire cutters

scissors

pliers

18 gauge wire ( if you can't find at a craft store, try a hardware store)

glue

I have plenty of magnolia centers, enough for everyone. Thanks to Margaret.

Please let me know if  you have questions about the supply list.  Diane

Zentangle???

This husband must love his wife's artistic talent, he let her tangle his car.

A Celebrity Member.....

At least we think so.  Sue made signs for her friends to take to New York for the Good Morning America show and they were shown on TV.  Way to go, Sue. 

Barbara will be teaching this little pumpkin and cat at the next meeting.  If you have any questions give her a call.  Remember to bring your regular painting supplies.  I will be back in New York but will be thinking of y'all.  Have fun!!

Romantic Roses With Beth Wagner DVD 473

Vacationing with the Yankees!!

I haven't been able to attend the meetings the past two month but for good reason.  I went on vacation to visit my sister in Pennsylvania and to share in the celebration of my niece graduating from high school and my nephew from college.  I had a great time shopping in antique stores - they have such good stuff up there.  I also spent my days on the front porch of my sisters house which sits on the side of a mountain.

The weather was near perfect - nice temps, a cool breeze....hard to come back to the scorching 90's!!

A reason to be proud!

Sue has good reason to be proud of her son:  (she doesn't know I'm posting this)

                        Joseph Luciani and Senior Associate Dean for Research Richard Lueptow

Joseph Luciani, senior design and prototyping specialist at the Segal Design Institute, was recognized with the summer STAR award as a staff recognition picnic on July 31.

The STAR Award—which stands for Staff Team Appreciation and Recognition—is given quarterly to a McCormick employee who demonstrates leadership and goes above and beyond his or her regular duties.

Luciani was nominated for his willingness to mentor the 3-D printing lab during a colleague’s leave of absence.

“Joe is a dedicated employee who exemplifies professionalism and rises to meet any challenge,” the award states. “He is recognized for his above and beyond contributions to the Rapid Prototyping Lab, the Center for Talent Development, and the Engineering Design and Innovation Bootcamp. Joe is valued for his diligence and willingness to step up when needed.  His leadership style serves him well, and he is an instrumental contributor on the Segal team.”

Winners of the STAR Award are nominated by fellow staff and faculty members, and a selection committee recommends a finalist to the dean for selection.

Congratulations, proud Momma!!

September paint in

Thank you very much to all the who came and especially to those who taught the class.  We had a lot of fun.   The minutes will follow as soon as I receive them.

 I will be out of town mid month, just to let everyone know.  Thanks again.   

 Here is the information on the quarter party for September 6:

Admission - 25 cents and 3 donated items. The items should be nice items that you would be willing to buy. You could bake a cake or make one of your favorite craft items, paint an item, a plant from a nursery or your yard, or an item that you no longer want or re-gift an item, etc.

You will receive an envelope containing tickets that all have the same number on them. ex. an envelope full of tickets with the number 5 on them.  This identifies you and is your hopefully winning number for the drawings.   

You will need a roll or two of quarters.

The donated items will be auctioned off one by one. If you want to bid on an item you will place a quarter and one of your tickets into the pot. If you really want the item, you can place several of your tickets and an equal amount of quarters into the pot.

Then we will draw a number for the item which will indicate the winner. 

We will also have a silent auction table with art work from teachers that we entertained at one of our seminars.

Bring your friends and neighbors, the more the merrier.   

Jacky

Hope y'all had a good time at the Christmas paint in last month.  I was thinking about you but I was also having a good time in New York and Pennsylvania.  

Margaret sent this picture and info for the next class.  Again, I won't be there, I have a niece graduating from boot camp and a niece having an open house plus my sister is still here visiting:

This is my project for Saturday. An origami folded ornament using card stock, no painting involved.

Please bring scissors and glue and regular tracing paper, graphite , etc. If we have time I have another folded item we can include. I will supply card stock, tassel and ribbon for $1.

From Crystal:

 I will be teaching a paper egg ornament. The supplies needed will be sissors, E-600 glue, ruler , tacky glue, a pen or pencil, hole punch, glitter glue red and  green (stickles) is a good brand. Glitter glue is optional.  My project will cost $2.00 dollars because of the cost of the brads , pearls, filagrees, and rhinestones.

From Jacky:

I was hoping that we could have a seminar for January.  We all need to talk about this, plus money issues to have a seminar.

From Diane:

Remember to bring your quilt sales tickets and $.  Our current bank balance is $894.75. No transactions in the month of July. 

The blog will look a bit different - I upgraded to Google Chrome and I am not sure how it works.  Looks like y'all have a lot going on.  Have fun,

Christmas in July Ornament Paint In

It's that time again, time to paint ornaments.  I'm sending this out now because I will not be here next week, I will be in New York with my family for two graduations.  If I receive more information before the 12th, I will enclose it, not sure if I can add pictures though as I will be working on my IPAD.  Janice L has sent the info for her ornaments as you will see below.  Margaret has switched dates with Beverly since she will be in Houston at that time.  So, y'all have fun!



For Janice's class:


Bring your black 01/05 Micron pen and a No. 2 pencil with eraser.  That's all that is required.

Optionally, you can bring transfer paper, scissors, colored pens/pencils, or watercolors of almost any kind.

I will provide cut-to-size white card stock, if you want to trace an ornament pattern to mount on another surface after drawing your tangles; five ornament outlines to trace or tangle on; a practice sheet; pictures of tangle patterns from Suzanne McNeill's book Zentangle Basics.  To the best
of my ability, I will show how to draw some of the patterns.

Three of my mounted ornaments are shown in the photo. 

June paint in....

Hey everyone, I hope everyone is having a nice summer.  Doing some fun things  with family.  We did  not have a NWSO meeting in May, we just had the Quarter Party.

Here is some NWSO meeting notes from our June Paint-In. 

Meeting started about 1030am

President comments:  I received a letter from the IRS stating they receive our paperwork and it will  take 90 – 180 days to process.  The IRS also said, if there areany problems or questions with the paperwork, I would get a call or another letter stating what needs to be corrected.  

Treasurer Report:  I sent an email to everyone about the treasurer’s report.  One change on the treasurer report,  Jacky’s coping cost was for the IRS paperworkinstead of quilt copies.  Our balance as of May 22, 2014 is $894.75 not counting what we received in June.

Membership Dues are coming up in October,  and selecting new NWSO officers as well. 

We can talk about having another Quarter Party for September when we meet at theJuly Paint-In.

A couple of reminders for members:

Quilt Raffle is not that far off.   Please sell your tickets.  Raffle Date is 4 October 2014. 

For July:   If you are one the individuals teaching a Christmas Ornament could you please send a picture of what you are painting to Brenda for the Blog or me and I will pass it on everyone. 

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Also attached is a picture of what happened in our June Paint-In. 

See you all soon.

Jacky

Painting on magnolia leaves...

Who would have thought to paint on leaves?  Sandy did.  Unfortunately her husbands illness prevented her from coming today (hope he is doing better now), but Margaret got us started.  Here are a few pics of the ones done in class..

Painting on Magnolia Leaves with Sandy...

Thank you to all who participated in our Quarter Party last month.  We had a great time.

We will be painting on Magnolia leaves that have been prepped with mod pog
and painted green, red and gold with sparkles.  Patterns cannot be traced on
the leaves so look through your Christmas books and find something that will
be simple to paint freehand like snowmen, ribbons, bows, candy cane and etc.

Bring your sparkle paint, hair dryer and toothbrush (to splatter).  If you
have snow that is great also..

I glue 1/8 inch ribbon to hand them on.  Bring what you have.

Quarter Party at the next meeting

We will not be painting at the next meeting but it will be a good time to have a party.  Looks like fun!!

QUARTER PARTY

Admission - 25 cents and 3 donated items. The items should be nice items that you would be willing to buy. You could bake a cake or make one of your favorite craft items, paint an item, a plant from a nursery or your yard, or an item that you no longer want or re-gift an item, etc.

You will receive an envelope containing tickets that all have the same number on them. ex. an envelope full of tickets with the number 5 on them.  This identifies you and is your hopefully winning number for the drawings.   

You will need a roll or two of quarters.

The donated items will be auctioned off one by one. If you want to bid on an item you will place a quarter and one of your tickets into the pot. If you really want the item, you can place several of your tickets and an equal amount of quarters into the pot.

Then we will draw a number for the item which will indicate the winner. 

We will also have an auction table with art work from teachers that we entertained at one of our seminars.

Bring your friends and neighbors, the more the merrier.   

April meeting and Paint In

We received word that due to Lucy's husbands recent hospital stay, Lucy will not be able to teach this weekend.  There wasn't a lot of time to come up with a project so Jackie has requested that everyone bring something small to paint on and she will teach a lighthouse/beach scene.

We have some business to finalize tomorrow.  Mostly about taxes.  There are some items we need to vote on within the directory.  If Barbara is able to attend she will need volunteers to fill the list of paint ins for the rest of the year.  I'm not sure but we will probably finalize the tickets for the quilt.  Please check the blog again tonight or tomorrow morning for any further updates

I didn't have this image available earlier because I have grandchildren over and it is really hard to get on the computer when they are here.  As always, bring your regular painting supplies and something for potluck.  The meeting begins at 10 am.  See you there.

Please check out the retreat pictures from the Wiregrass Decorative Painters website:


http://www.wiregrassdecorativepainters.org/2014-retreat---we-dig-painting.html

The photos are a slideshow, so give them a minute to load.  You will be able to see the projects everyone did, the pins, etc.

I wanted to add that we had a great time at the retreat.  If you missed it this year you might want to consider it for next February.  Since the theme this year was We Dig Painting, they asked that each of us paint a trowel as our ticket to get into the retreat.  Some of us went out of our way to make our trowel unique.  I don't remember what each painter did but I thought I would point out a few from our chapter.  Sue originally had a yellow trowel.  Since she lives on the beach it was only fitting that she do a beach scene.  But she didn't just paint one, she added little shells and charms to hers.  Then she cut the rubber handle completely off and added jute.  At the top where she tied it off she had little seashells and charms hanging from the jute.  It was sooo darn cute!!  Click on the picture to enlarge.

One of the projects they had us do was a brain teaser.  They provided us with a board and we were told to tape it off in sections, about seven would be nice.  I didn't hear that part and I sectioned off 13 sections, determined to use all the tape I had on hand.  Jane taped hers off in triangle wedges.  We then had to trade our favorite colors of paint with our neighbor.  That didn't deter Jane.  She painted her board with unexpected colors and they still look as if it was what she intended to do with her favorite colors.  It turned out so nice that if it had a hole in the center it would have made a beautiful clock.  I was able to get mine painted but with 13 sections I had to mix a lot of colors.  Then we had to embellish them and they had all kinds of things to choose from.  Luckily, I had Sue sitting next to me who has a great imagination.  She helped me - well, actually she embellished my board and it came out so pretty.

Diane was sitting next to me.  Some of our smaller projects were painting ghord pins and a small replica of our retreat theme.  Diane did something on the background of her ghord piece, not sure what but her piece ended up looking like it was antique.  And being the patriotic person she is, she painted her retreat pin in red, white and blue.  We had so much creativity going that day.

I mention these three because they are the ones I remember and we all sat at the same table.  Everybody's work was just great.  Maybe they could bring it in to the next meeting so you can see it in person.  It might help make up your mind about attending next year.  Be sure to check out the website above.

I wasn't able to make yesterdays meeting but I heard y'all had a great time.  Sue was kind enough to send me a few pictures of the hankie dolls.  I'm sorry I missed all the fun.

A note from Jacky

     2014 is moving very quickly, everyone is busy with traveling to visit family, or helping family with sickness, work or kids.   One thing we should always remember to say our prayers and thank those around us.

     I want to thank everyone who attended the Ros Stallcup seminar and participated in the dinners with Ros.  I was glad to meet the new people from Enterprise and see what their art group was painting.  I am also happy people are volunteering, we need everyone helping with our art group to be a successful club, without you, we are only partly a club. 

     I also want to welcome 3 new visitors who came to the meeting and painted 1 February, Dee, Ann and Angela.

     Finally, welcome to everyone, ready for a new year, maybe new people, and paint new ways.

Jacky

Painting a Bow - watch to the end, there are more videos. www.paint-therapie.com

New Year, New President, New Place to Meet, and New Friends

Lots of new things for us this year.  We started off the new year with a Ros Stallcup seminar which was great.  I think everyone that attended really enjoyed painting with her.  We have a new President, Jackie and a new place to meet.  The fire house meeting room is small but will be fine until someone finds something bigger. And we had new friends visiting us, welcome, Angela Simone, her mother Ann Simone and Delores Mintz.   Now we are preparing for our next meeting on 1 March.  Jackie will be teaching a fold hankie doll.  This is what she said to tell you:

For the class,  people should bring a good pair of scissor, and their normal supplies, tracing paper, hanker chief - size is about 14"x14".  Jacky

Of course, we will have lunch so don't forget a covered dish.  We are still working out the kinks of meeting in a new place but I think with a little soap and vinegar we should have it looking good by the next meeting.  I'm hoping I can get with a couple of our members to do a little cleaning.  I will also bring a coffee pot - I bet some of you were going through withdrawals last Saturday.  

The guys at the fire department graciously allowed us to leave our tablecloths in the kitchen.  No one wants to have to drag that around.  One of my suggestions for members is to take a trip to the Dollar Tree, check out their craft section and then head over to the party supplies and pick up a plastic tablecloth.  And since you are already there stop by the tool section and pick up a faux shammy cloth.  They are great to put in your palette to hold water for a wet palette --- and the good news is everything is only a dollar.  If you don't have a fairly flat palette, see if they have plastic trays to use as a palette.  I also buy my small squirt water bottles there.  I'm not getting paid to endorse Dollar Tree (unfortunately) but there are so many things there that we could use in our craft.

I am bringing my old Decorative Painters for any member who wants them - free.  If you have something you want to share feel free to bring it also.  Not sure where we will put these items but we will work it out.

Thawed out yet??

Hope you all made it through our ice storm without damage.  We were fortunate we only lost power overnight but I found it hard to sleep when I don't have my nightlight.  It was really dark in the house so I was forced to open the shades to let in enough light to find my way around.  Like most of you I waited for the snow but only got ice.

We will have our regular meeting tomorrow in our new meeting room.  We checked it out this week and decided the room needs a little cleaning so that's what we will be doing first off.  Keep in mind we are entering a mans world so you know it may not be up to our standards.  Then we are going to practice Ros' strokes.  So bring your painting supplies and a dish for pot luck lunch and let's start planning our new year.  We are challenging each member to come up with something you can teach this year.  We have nine months remaining to paint this year and we need at least seven people to come forward with a month they are willing to teach.  Then we need six members to teach ornaments in the month of July and August.  This will give everyone a chance to teach.  If you feel uncomfortable doing it by yourself ask for another member to work with you.  If you feel you don't paint well enough to teach I say...Poo!  I have seen everyone's paintings and I know you are much better than you think.  If you need help finding something suitable to teach, ask us and we will help.  I will tell you about the first time I taught a class.  I was petrified!  I had to teach an oil painting in front of people I didn't even know.  I practiced my project at least a dozen times.  I wrote out my instructions as I painted, then when I finished I started all over again.  I painted that canvas so many times everyone in my family got the same painting....and you know I have a big family.  It turned out fine but I wasn't convinced.  The next class I taught I did the same thing...my family finally said they loved getting a painting but didn't all want to get the same thing!  Even now, I get butterfly's when I teach so I think it must be a normal feeling.

I am excited to tell you that I have the quilt we painted and will bring it to the meeting tomorrow.  It really is very pretty, I think you will be quite pleased.  We will discuss how we will handle the raffle at the meeting.

I found this fish on Pinterest and it reminded me of a reverse Zentangle.  Thought you might like to see.  Hope to see y'all tomorrow.  We're off to a good start!

Another seminar down...

We had a fantastic seminar this weekend painting with that brush abuser Ros Stallcup!  I checked everyone's paintings and they all turned out beautiful.  Dark backgrounds, light backgrounds, even purple backgrounds...some on canvas, some on wood or tin...we had a little bit of everything going on.  Ros was her usual self, very sharing and fun to paint with.  She is fast becoming one of our favorite teachers....we might want to think about having her next year.

Now, the bad news is we did lose money but the good news is it wasn't very much.  We will have a discussion about it at the meeting.  I want to thank those who went to dinner with us on Saturday night, eight of those attending joined us.  And the food at the Fish House was delicious and they gave us plenty.

As you know when we rent the community center for a seminar we are responsible for cleaning the room and removing any trash when we have completed the seminar.  This time we had to not only set the room up for the seminar...thanks to Jane, Jackie, and myself, but we had to reset it before we left which meant moving tables and chairs back in place, vacuuming (thanks Jane), wiping down tables and cleaning the kitchen.  I wanted to thank everyone who stayed behind and helped, it was so appreciated.  I especially wanted to thank Joan for taking the trash.  I live next to the woods and the raccoons and critters have learned to open my trash cans - I may have had a mess to clean up while waiting for the trash day on Friday.  You were a life saver and I have a special little something for you at the next meeting.  Thanks again to all of you.

Just a reminder, this year we would like to see EVERYONE sign up to teach a class.  We know some are not comfortable or do not feel confident enough to stand in front of everyone and teach.  But I know each and everyone of you have a talent in something even if it isn't painting.  We have to plan ahead so perhaps you could teach a small ornament during our summer Christmas Ornament Paint in.  Barbara has the schedule to exceed this year so you have plenty of time to come up with something.

Some of you may not have known it but Margaret went to see her daughter dance in Las Vegas last month and was unable to attend the Christmas lunch.  It must have been wonderful to see her come home with her trophies.  Congratulations, proud Mom, and to your beautiful daughter, Susan!

Our next meeting will be held at the Fire Station on Johnson Avenue, one block east of Davis Highway. That is across the street from the West Florida Hospital Rehab Center.  We will meet at 10 am.  This is a new place for us until we find something more suitable.  I will be posting again soon, stay tuned.

Our seminar will be held at the Beulah Senior/Community Center off Mobile Highway starting tomorrow at 9am.  The address is 7417 Woodside  Road about one block south of Mobile Highway behind the Beulah Elementary School.  If you pull up beulah community center on the web it will show you a map, on mapquest type in the address for driving directions.  Everyone is coming from so many different directions it will be difficult to address each one.  If you have a problem, give me a call at home. 850-969-9524 or on my cell 850-982-9524.  Please come early so we can get started at 9 am.  Also, bring a jacket if you get cold easily.  The thermostats is preset at 68 degrees.